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Meal Plans-Week Commencing 9th October 2006

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  • Bunnie1982
    Bunnie1982 Posts: 1,671 Forumite
    We go shopping on Thursday nights so is it OK if I post what we have from Thursday to Wednesday? It's still a weeks worth of food

    1. Sweet jacket potatoes with vegetables

    2. Sprats with couscous and sour cream and chive sauce

    3. HM corned beef and potato hash with beans

    4. Roast beef, yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, carrots and parsnips, cauliflower and gravy

    5. HM Winter warmer red lentil soup (simmering as we speak)

    6. HM Chicken Jambalaya with brown rice

    7. HM Butternut squash soup
  • Right this is my this weeks plan

    monday - tomato and mozzerella pasta bake
    tuesday - left over chicken from sunday roast - mash and veggies
    wednesday - spag bol ( bol already made in freezer)
    thursday- out for dinner yippee
    friday - fish in breadcrumbs with HM chips and veg
    saturday - have ago at HM pizza
    Sunday - beef roast but will slowcook it as I can never get it right in the oven always too tough.
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  • Pink.
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    :o What a great thread Penny-Pincher!! Thank you!

    Ok, this is what we're having this week.........


    Monday: Left over roast beef pie, with broccoli, carrots and baby potatoes.

    Tuesday: Fish pie and a green salad.

    Wednesday: Chunky chicken and vegetable soup and wheaten bread, followed by apple and blackberry pie.

    Thursday: Tuna and pasta bake with salad and baked potato.

    Friday: Carbonara and cheesy garlic bread. (Thanks to becles for the recipe) I add a crushed garlic clove and always use double cream that I have bought when it’s reduced and kept in the freezer.

    Saturday: Sweet chilli chicken and rice. (Using up egg whites from carbonara)

    Sunday: Roast chicken, stuffing, roast potatoes, oven roasted vegetables, carrots and broad beans. I usually cook two chickens together to give us enough for a meal on Sunday and Monday plus a pie or pasta bake for the freezer, sandwiches for packed lunches and stock for soup as well as allowing the odd hungry person (me:o ) to nick some from the fridge when they get the munchies.

    I work alternate weeks and this meal plan is for this week, when I’m off work. In a typical working week we usually have one can’t be bothered/poke in the freezer/snack night…….e.g. scrambled eggs on toast, omelettes, toasted sandwiches or beans on toast etc followed by a desert.

    Pink
  • beachbeth
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    Some of you are so lucky with the lovely meals you are able to make! Thanks for that Acapulco Chicken recipe, GinGin, I definitely want to try that!

    Here's my problem:

    Food that me and DD2 like: virtually any pasta dish, chicken curry, rice, egg fried rice, roast dinners, baked potatoes, shepherds pie, stew, pizza, prawns, salad (and much more - its too much to list!)

    Food that DH likes: Roast dinners, any sort of fry up, pizza, pies, chip shop takeaways, shepherds pie, (will eat stew but not keen really).

    Food that DD1 Likes: roast dinners, ready made pizza (won't eat HM), oven chips, shepherds pie with chicken instead of mince, stew, cheese and ham toasties.

    The fact that DH and DD1 are so fussy makes my life so difficult. I would cook up all sorts of rice and pasta dishes but its only me and DD2 that will eat them and I end up having to make something else for the other 2! :(

    This is my typical weekly menu:

    Sun - Roast dinner (usually beef or lamb) with yorkshire puddings
    Mon - Me and hubby make 2 extra sunday dinners for us to eat today. DD1 has pizza or I'll cook her mashed potato with something (lamb chop today) DD2 has pasta sauce made with sausage & carrots that Ive made previously and frozen.
    Tue - I have HM Chilli Con Carne, DD2 and hubby have sausage and chips and DD2 has oven chips and pizza
    Wed- Im always stuck for ideas on a Wednesday. May do shepherds pie this week
    Thur - Stew (we all eat this. Hurray!)
    Fri - So fed up with trying to think what to cook that I have HM Chilli Con Carne myself and make everyone else go down the chinese/chip shop. :D
    Sat- Don't usually decide until saturday. Quiche, salad and chips is usually what we have and DD1 gets herself a takeaway pizza because she doesn't like quiche or salad!

    Does anyone else have the problem of cooking different things for different people all the time? :confused:
  • gingin_2
    gingin_2 Posts: 2,992 Forumite
    beachbeth wrote:
    Some of you are so lucky with the lovely meals you are able to make! Thanks for that Acapulco Chicken recipe, GinGin, I definitely want to try that!

    Here's my problem:

    Does anyone else have the problem of cooking different things for different people all the time? :confused:

    Thanks Beachbeth, I hope it works out o.k for you.

    My menu is just for o.h and I. We don't eat until 8.30pm-9 the kids eat at 5pm, my ds is fairly fussy, dd is fine, they eat a completely different menu to us, roasts, macaroni cheese, pies, pasta, quiche, baked potatoes, soup. Oh is also fussy in that he eats a high protein diet and I prefer a low fat diet so we try and meet in the middle! So you are definitely not alone!
  • ageandjo
    ageandjo Posts: 1,012 Forumite
    Ok here's mine for this week:

    Monday: chicken salad with garlic doughballs// apple crumble and custard:D
    Tuesday: HM chicken curry done in SC with rice:D
    Wednesday: HM chilli with rice again:rolleyes:
    Thursday: Sausages mash curly kale carrots:D
    Friday: HM steak & kidney in guiness in SC with cabbage placed in a huge yorkshire pud:D

    We don't usually have pudding but today I popped to M&S and apple crumble's were half price:D

    I forgot Saturday and Sunday

    Saturday: something easy like pizza and chips
    Sunday: Roast and lots of veg Meat TBA
  • toria27
    toria27 Posts: 188 Forumite
    This thread definetly give you some great ideas. Heres this weeks menu plan

    Mon - HM shepards pie, cauliflower cheese & SC rice pudding
    Tue - HM chicken burgers, spicy wedges and salad
    Wed - BBQ pork & cous cous
    Thur - Bacon & onion pizza
    Fri - HM spag bol (lots of veg in) & Garlic bread
    Sat - HM chicken curry, rice & nahn bread
    Sun - Roast chicken & all the trimmings HM syrup sponge & custard
  • What a good idea!!!

    Monday - Jambalaya
    Tuesday - Chicken and Bacon Risotto
    Wednesday - Sausage Casserole with rice
    Thursday - Dinner at Dad's
    Friday - HM bolognese with pasta
    Saturday - HM pizza with HM wedges and sweetcorn

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  • Hey everyone,

    Here's my menu plan for this week - we usually do Sunday - Saturday (shopping on a Sunday at some point).

    Here is this week's menu (I'm travelling to London late Friday night so Saturday isn't included this week):-

    Sunday - roast dinner
    Monday - (lunch) chicken sandwiches (OH)/chicken salad (me) (we got a reduced chicken at the weekend and cooked it on Saturday for the meat for sandwiches/salad/soups etc
    - (tea) leek and potato gratin (from Linda McC cookbook)
    Tuesday - (lunch) HM butternut squash bisque
    - (tea) HM chickpea curry
    Wednesday - (lunch) mixed bean salad (mixed beans from a tin & served with a little fat free natural yogurt
    - (tea) HM pizzas (usually do homemade with shop bought bases, but this week as I'm off work, I'm trying to do the bases myself too!)
    Thursday - (lunch) mozzarella, basil and tomato on batch seeded rolls (YUM!)
    - (tea) pasta and ragu sauce (sauce from freezer), topped with a little grated cheese
    Friday - (lunch) felafels with a little fat free natural yogurt and salad
    - (tea) HM chilli and wraps with creme fraiche (from freezer)

    This is not a typical week as I'm off work this week so I've found a bit more time to be in the kitchen.

    Typical autumn/winter meals are:-

    HM mushroom and parma ham risotto
    pasta with HM sauce (never use pasta sauce jars)
    HM chilli
    HM veg enchiladas
    HM chilli bean wraps
    marinated salmon fillets & salad
    marinated chicken fillets & salad
    chicken or veg stir fry
    toad in the hole
    sausage and mash
    macaroni cheese

    I'm going to try and use my slow cooker a bit now the weather is getting colder. I tried it last week for the first time though and the electrics smelt funny so I turned it off before I left the house! I will try it again soon (but might get my dad - electrician - to PAT test it first!).

    Love hearing all the ideas! More things to add to my MUST MAKE list. Currently on this list are:-

    red onion tarte tatin (from MSE but I can't remember who posted the recipe!)
    coronation chicken (I've never made this myself)
    cauliflower cheese
    slow cooker meals
    tuna pasta bake
    homemade pasta with fillings**

    **Most of the above will have to wait as I've just started a new diet!

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  • dannahaz
    dannahaz Posts: 1,069 Forumite
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    Lillibet wrote:
    OK, here's mine :

    Mon : "Roast pie" My own invention, basically everything leftover from the roast inc spuds thrown into a pie & covered with gravey.

    Lillibet, need more info. Do you put it in a dish cold, pour on hot gravy,, cover with pastry and then bake? If so, what temp & how long? If not, what?

    I've never thought about pie-ing roast 'tatoes, but it sounds great. We always have roast veg left too, and I can feel myself saluvating at the thought of pie.

    Mmmm. Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie.
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